Deep Realms Doing Something on This Week’s List of Fastest-Growing Games by DAU

Playdom’s Deep Realms makes a surprise appearance at number seven this week on our list of fastest-growing games by daily active users, following a two-day spike in both DAU and monthly active users. It’s not quite clear what caused the spike, but the game’s got a ways to go to catch up with its sibling, Gardens of Time.

On to the rest of the top 20, we see Zuma Blitz and Monster Galaxy also making surprise returns with DAU lifts. Even farther down, we find poker, pool, and Turkish rummy-type tile game, Okey. Seems like Zynga’s temporary rise across all its titles from last week has died off.

Deep Realms has had a hard road since its late March launch was overshadowed by the early April release of Gardens of Time. Though both games came from the same company, it seems as though Deep Realms didn’t enjoy as post-launch support from Playdom. So ignored was the title that Playdom owner Disney Interactive didn’t even mention it during its Q2 earnings call earlier this month, although it made much of Gardens of Time’s success. This sudden spike in both DAU and MAU could be a signal that more attention is coming Deep Realms’ way.

You can read a comprehensive breakdown of the two games’ launches from former ISG contributor and former Playdom employee, Tami Baribeau, on her blog.

All data in this post comes from our traffic tracking service, AppData. Stay tuned for our look at the top emerging apps on Friday.